[Biopython-dev] Blast parsers and records

[Michiel de Hoon]

--- On Mon, 6/7/10, Peter <biopython at maubp.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
> I agree that records from all the different BLAST output
> formats should be represented by a common base class -
> but not necessarily the same class.
> For example, the default plain text and XML formats include
> the pairwise alignments, but the tabular output does not. To
> me having a sub-class which stores the pairwise alignments seems
> natural here.

Why do we need a sub-class? We don't do this in Bio.SeqIO, where GenBank files contain much more information than Fasta files, but both are represented by a SeqRecord.

Best,
--Michiel.